Across
- 3. Political party Lincoln represented
- 4. Lincoln's famous speech stating that a nation cannot remain half slave and half free
- 7. The political contest Lincoln and Douglas were competing in
- 12. Political party Douglas represented
- 13. Idea that states should decide on slavery
- 14. Someone who wanted to end slavery
- 17. Douglas' argument against the Dred Scott decision
- 18. State where the Lincoln-Douglas debates took place
- 19. 1854 act allowing states to decide on slavery
- 20. The issue of states leaving the Union, which Lincoln opposed
Down
- 1. Location of John Brown’s raid
- 2. Secret network helping enslaved people escape
- 5. Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans were not citizens
- 6. The act of freeing enslaved people, a topic Lincoln later pursued
- 8. 1820 agreement limiting slavery in new territories
- 9. Series of laws attempting to balance slave and free states
- 10. Opponent of Douglas in the 1858 debates
- 11. Democratic senator who debated Lincoln
- 15. Law requiring escaped slaves to be returned
- 16. Conflict that followed the debates' tensions